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17 Bible Verses About Ocean Waves

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Summary

  • Job 38:11 and Jeremiah 5:22 describe a boundary God set for the sea, and Jeremiah 5:23 sets the waves that keep it beside a people who “have turned aside and gone away.”
  • In Psalm 107:25-29 the LORD both stirs up the waves and stills them, and the sailors are brought to their “desired haven.”
  • In Mark 4:39 Jesus speaks to the waves, and the disciples ask, “Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”
  • Psalm 42:7 and Jonah 2:3 both say “all your waves and breakers” have swept over the speaker, calling the waves God’s own.
  • James 1:6 and Jude 1:13 compare people to waves, while Isaiah 48:18 uses the waves of the sea for the well-being obedience would have brought.

The waves of the sea answer to God: he sets their limit and stills them when they rise. Job 38:11 and Jeremiah 5:22 describe the limit, Psalm 89:9 and Psalm 107:29 the stilling, and in Mark 4:39 Jesus calms the waves on the lake with a word. In Psalm 42:7 and Jonah 2:3 the waves go over the speaker, in Matthew 14:30 Peter begins to sink, James 1:6 and Jude 1:13 compare unstable or false people to waves, and Isaiah…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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